What’s the cost of a revolution?

There is a digital revolution going on and if you’re reading this post…on this site then that is probably not new news. Many conversations on the subject eventually turn to the wider reaching effects of this revolution on our society particularly in regard to jobs and wealth creation.  Whether advances in technology are creating more […]

Digital and Creative sector stats … what the numbers say

If you haven’t heard about it before the Commission for Employment and Skills is a publicly funded, industry led organisation.  Its commissioners are a social partnership made up of CEOs of large and small businesses, employment advisors and Trade Union representatives from across the UK. In June 2015 they published their Insights for the digital and creative […]

Any time, any place, any where

“… working the martini way in the technology driven work places of the future.” So fetch me a cocktail while I lounge and strategise in some tropical co-working space so much further east than Shoreditch. Working anytime, any place, in paradise – who wouldn’t want that? The millennials want autonomy, particularly over their time.  Flexible working is already a reality, and fluidity in […]

Robot Wars and the end of nice

Robot Wars and the end of nice

How would you outwit a robot? Technological singularity is still a long-ish way off, but machines replacing manpower, and computers beating chess champions is well in the past. “By the early 70s, robots were taking over production work that required flexibility and dexterity – cutting, welding, assembling. By the end of the decade, they were flying planes […]